The Pacific Northwest is due for a Major Earthquake
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
- An 8.0-magnitude-plus earthquake hasn't rumbled beneath the Pacific Northwest since the 1700s. Now, the region is due for the next "big one" and a subsequent tsunami. Coastal Indigenous communities could be severely affected. (Already, the Shoalwater Bay Tribe is constructing a tsunami tower to give their residents a better shot at survival in the face of this kind of natural disaster.)
Clues from the past-paired with modern-day science-can help us better understand why this area is at risk and how to best mitigate an earthquake and tsunami's effects.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:32 The Last Major Earthquake in the US
02:13 Evidence of Major Earthquake and Tsunami in the US
04:09 Indigenous Communities Prepare for Future Earthquake and Tsunami
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Produced by:
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Production Assistance:
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Music: APM
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Born & raised in the Pacific Northwest i've been hearing this all my life. I predict we won't be prepared b/c it's easy to become complacent & say "yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever" until it happens then we'll complain why nobody warned us. Just human nature isn't it?
Leave before November. If nothing happens you can always move back.
Move before November that's the safest idea
As another native Pacific Northwesterner, I have also heard threats of the "big one" my whole life. Between the "big one", California breaking off and causing devastation to the whole West, Yellowstone having a major geyser explosion, and threats of Dante's Peak 2.0 (Mt. St. Helen's), I still have no idea what to even prepare for, let alone try to be prepared at all. Am I supposed to prepare for earthquakes, tsunamis, or volcanic doomsday? How would I even go about preparing for that, beyond building a crazy doomsday bunker? Even if we wanted to, I doubt humans could prepare properly for all eventual disasters.
Maybe they forgot to carry a one in their calculations...
Humans learn from experience, so it'll have to happen first before preparing for the next one.
They have been saying the big one is coming since the 60s. It could be as close as tomorrow or 1000 years from now and it would still be just a blink of an eye for the Earth.
The Cascadia subduction event occurs about every 3 or 4 hundred years. Mud core samples confirm this. Ideally communities can prepare
I watched one documentary there kind of expecting a 80 percent chance of cascades with in the next 10 to 20 years
This century!
We will witness this event. It happens every 300 years and it’s way over due.
It could also possibly set off the San Andreas fault line because they’re connected to one another.
Imagine that, a double whammy? 😳😳😳
California is the hell mouth
A close family member (president of the mining association Canada) showed me maps of what would happen to the coast line of B.C if a magnitude 8.5 or above happened. It was absolutely shocking. If you're in North Van, Delta, Tsawwassen, or anywhere near Richmond, god be with you. These areas aren't on bedrock and will sink/landslide before a tsunami even hits. Everything will be under 75+ feet of water.
Geo Tech here, yes, your family member is absolutely correct and I've personally advised people to move away from that entire region for the last 10 years
@@Inlinetodie hi could you explain more, do you also advise to move away from washington and oregon of the united states. Im thinking of going into this line of work/research. When do you think it will happen. Sorry to bombard you with questions🥴
What if the earthquakes in turkey put pressure on other tectonic plates, I know nothing about this other than what I remember being taught in geography, so not sure if this happens or is possible
@@OPKieranVR Seismic events on one side of the planet can affect geology elsewhere.
@@picklerick5521More than half of Washington is blocked off by an entire mountain range. The part we need to worry about is the coast.
I am legitimately terrified of this happening in the very near future. I remember the one that happened when I was in fourth grade and my teacher was so scared. I couldn't concentrate for days after. Idk why but earthquakes terrify me so bad!
It could be due to that 4th gr teacher's reaction.
0:49 wow that visual was a trip… that graph shows my anxiety levels when the water in the toilet rises instead of flushes
Bro
Not funny
Just turn the valve off behind the turlit
very funny, did laugh /g
Thanks , funny
Watching this after a bunch of small earthquakes in northern CA today
Yep felt the bed rocking lol
Same
Rocked pretty good in Central Valley
Well it could be foreshadowing of whats to come
@@bravesoul5743 you just got me curious 😳😳😳😳
Our government can give billions of taxpayer dollars to pharmaceutical companies, but not a modest amount to recognize our American Natives.
I’ve been around the Olympic Peninsula. Coastal communities severely lack in emergency evacuation routes. Highways need to become freeway sized in order to move massive amounts of vehicles in a hurry. No stop signs or traffic lights to stop or delay emergency evacuation routes. Winding mountain Highway 101 is only 2 lanes in some areas. I experienced Texas coastal Hurricanes & Tornadoes. Emergency Evacuation easily crawls to a snail pace. There is little chance that most people will survive the big one.
If there is little chance of survival, why build all the infrastructure?
The Japanese thought they’d made themselves safe with a 10 meter tsunami defence wall. Except when the earthquake hit a few years ago the coastline dropped by several meters lowering the wall by the same amount
Whatever man builts, Nature will destroy.
That’s sucks thinking I’m being proactive just for Mother Nature to say no you don’t
Wall : 10 meter wall
Earthquake : hold my beer
10 meters is just under 33 feet......2011 tsunami reached 38 meters...124 feet tall, basically 90 feet higher than the protective wall.
Humans: We built this wall so that it’ll hold off a tsunami.
Mother Nature: Hold this…
No matter what we try to do to avoid a catastrophic event from occurring, Mother Nature has the last say so in the matter.
Brian Atwater is the geologist who figured out the 1700 tsunami mystery. We all owe him a huge thank you.
Atwater is definitely the man, in this case!
Thank you for that info. He made us better aware of our world. 1luv.
Also thanks to the Japanese for keeping such meticulous records that we could go back to 1700 and see that the mysterious tsunami they experienced had an origin across the Pacific
Oh damn, so this earthquake should've happened over 20 years ago 😳
Japan actually had it written down and the PNW natives too so I don't think so.
Thank you so much for this!
Having survived the Slymar, Calif quake of 1971, which was a 6.6 quake, I can not imagine how terrifying that higher amount of 9.0 would be. During my experience, which happen right before dawn, myself and 8 month pregnant wife awoke, to crashing and shaking that gave me an impression that a speeding freight train was right outside my window. Looking out that window briefly, I watched as trees and telephone poles waved back and forth like like being moved by a giant hand. All the dishes and kitchen ware came crashing out of the cupboards. My large console TV tipped over and the bathroom sink pipe snapped with water shooting up like a fountain. We were taught to retreat to doorways in a quake, as it is reinforced and less likely to collapse. As I hugged my wife we were knocked off our feet several times and when I got back up I couldn't stop my knees from knocking, I was that scared. I was sure we were going to die that day. After shocks happened for days, maybe weeks. Each time I would wonder if this new quake would be my final. But we survived. Life goes on for the living. I pray the Pacific NW will somehow be spared this clamity.
With the way the Richter Scale works, each number equates to a *significantly* more violent earthquake than the last, so a 9 would be absolutely catastrophic. Unfortunately, the Cascadia Subduction Zone *will* generate one -- it's a one-in-three chance of happening within the next 50 years, in fact.
They've been saying California is due for the big since the 1950's, I remember the paranoia it caused as a child.
Exactly. Same with Global Warming. I was in my early teens when this word came out, and was said that by 2015 the entire earth will be solar, the globe will be dead if we aren't green. 2015 was 6 years ago .... It's the big CO2 Giants that ruin the environment, buying a 'green' lightbulb does NOTHING. But, it's good fear tactics and promotes consumerism, while the big CO2 polluters laugh all the way to the bank.
@@lillypod1337 , Global warming is a hoax and pure bullshit. Research about the Modern Grand Solar Minimum which began in 2020 and the Kali Yuga which ends in 2025. The ignorant masses have no idea about the coming destruction, suffering and chaos that happens during Grand Solar Minimums and at the end of Yugas.
It won’t hurt being cautious. Nothing is certain
It's media hype, excused by 'geologically soon', which is compared to the Earth as 4.7 billion years old. 'Recent' is 15,000 years ago, 'soon' is sometime in the next few thousand years. You'll have to wait to sue them for lying.
Every savvy realtor and ins agent knows - the San Andreas pops cause movement in only 1 direction. If its not TheBigOne, proper furniture placement and securing shelves/hutches et keeps even the most delicate porcelain intact.(Hotel chandeliers always, only swing east-west. Bolt hutches/shelves on N/S walls and not a dish will topple).
When I think what the natural disaster will look like in the Pacific Northwest I look at what happened back in 2011 when Japan had a tsunami coming in only it’s going to be a lot worse for us here as we are not as prepared as they are.
Big facts.
These people can cause all the hysteria they want when they should be preparing. It’s not like the pacific north west has been anticipating a large earthquake for over half a century. Wtf
@@Ziggysdankgenetics Do you really believe that they wish to cause hysteria?
Agree. It’s going to be really really bad here. On the coast there’re signs for tsunami zone, but I don’t think people actually know what to do when the big one hits, and the buildings are NOT earthquake proof at all in PNW. In Japan most buildings are earthquake proof, and they run regular drills for earthquake and tsunami, yet they lost almost 20,000 lives to tsunami back in 2011.
@@Ziggysdankgenetics As a native Californian we have been training for this our whole lives… anyone 5yr and up knows the procedure. The only people who are hysterical are those who never experienced an earthquake and claim they survived when a baby one hits. Also I kinda low key don’t feel bad for the beach homes that will be lost but more so the beach goers who won’t make it before the tsunami hits land. We are likely to get some terrible shocks before and after the big one. The thing that sucks is people don’t have satellite phones and land lines anymore so reaching loved ones will be hard if things get destroyed and disconnected.
I have heard this since the 70's. They don't know when its coming.
wow they predicted the 7,8 mag in Turkey
Terrifying and the tsunami that could follow, devastating.
The San Andreas fault isn’t under water
The number of people at risk is overall very small comapred to japan. There are only a few communities by the ocean but they are small like Coos Bay or Port Angeles etc. The big cities like here in Seattle are over 130 miles/200KM away from the Ocean but there is always a risk of water level rising and flooding so there are sirens and evacuation paths just in case.
@@Gk-iu6ws No, San Andreas is in California and around San Francisco area the fault continues way out in to the deep ocean. In the North West it is the Juan De Fuca fault zone. Totally different fault. Not related.
@@drscopeify the San Andreas isn’t in the water the Juan de fuca is in the water
Ummm.... Will the tsunami reach the philippines ??
8.2 today in Alaska. We haven't even seen the aftermath yet. Still waiting for more news. Tsunami warnings are in effect in Hawaii... stay safe everyone. 😪
Before getting the earthquake , we predict it, before getting the tsunami we predict it ,we are like cockroaches of modern world .
8.2 WTFFF hope ur all good
Funny nothing on news about it 🤔🤔
@@johnmccartan939 It was on the news. A simple GOOGLE search will confirm it. No major damage reported from what I heard on day 1. I haven't looked for more updates after they lifted the tsunami warnings. It was centered near the Aleutian Island area of Alaska.
as an italian... i can relate
Alaska had an 8.2 about 2 months ago. My husband and I felt every bit of it.
so you could claim to have truly felt the earth move 🥸, i was in Uk we had a 4 point earth tremor felt like an express train coming through.... you could hear the approach too... i now live near Vancouver BC.... so i guess its the real thing here, still i guess rock n roll
Remember the one we had, which was a 6.8,they can happen at any time and to see the streets move like waves on the ocean that was scary
It's not what happens to you, it's how you handle it. When Mt. Saint Helens erupted I was on the side of a mountain next to Idaho. My brother and I heard it. We lived through the ash fallout. Been though many things since. Tornados, hurricanes, Afghanistan the list goes on. Prepare all you want but you're never really ready.
Afghanistan? I thought it was a country and not something you go through. Lol
Thank you for your service
Joining the military is a choice. I have no sympathy for you and you didn't fight for anything in Afghanistan. Sorry.
@@ajl2232 You must be new to thinking. Take your time. The answer is it can be both.
@@RealMTBAddict You're mistaken if you think I need or want sympathy. What gave you the idea you were important?
My anxiety just went up a magnitude of 100.
Don’t worry about it. Everyone is due to die someday. Whether it’s from an earthquake, a tsunami, or whatever. Thinking about it changes nothing. We all have to realize that we are all going to die one day, whether we like it or not.
@@raisin4406 exactly, worrying about the inevitable will just lead you to live a very sad life.
Your fine if you ain't living near the ocean 🙁
I always worried about the next big earthquake but you can't keep telling people this and try to freak people out! There's nothing we can do to avoid a quake to happen or when it happens..... we just need to be calm and deal with it!
The number of people at risk is very low, unless you live in Coos Bay or Port Angeles or other small low laying towns but most have a Tsunami escape path to higher ground and sirens. Seattle and Portland are over 100 miles from the Ocean and shielded away but might get some flooding in lowland areas.
Turkiye just suffered from a 7.8magnitude killed 3,000 plus and counting. Pray for them
I have always wondered if the massive earthquake would cause Mt.Rainier to erupt. Either way, both situations would SUCK.
Japan despite their huge effort in mitigating Earthquake and Tsunami still lost more than 18.000 lives and to this day Tohoku hasn't yet recovered, LET THAT SINK IN!
I still remember that day like yesterday watching that on the news Seeing water coming in as people are driving and its mind blowing how much water had come inland.
Anomize23 Mother Nature can be terrifying. That tsunami and the one in Thailand in 2004 were the most terrible things to watch.
Then there's Fukushima and the disaster that has been...
SO SAD AND SO PAINFUL I CRY FOR 5 HOURS WHEN I SAW THAT CATASHTEOPHE IN JAPAN AND THE PROOF IS SOLID AND VALID . SO PLEASE HELP ME PRAY AND REPENT ALL YOUR SINS. IAM PLEADING AND BEGGING YOU ALL TO PRAY THE.BIG ONE IS REAL I FEEL IT LAST OCTOBER 15 , 2013 AT THAT TIME I ALMOST LOST MY MIND BUT *******THE HOLY GOD GIVE US THE CHANCE*** THE FIRST THING I SAW IS THE FLOOD IT HAPPENED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DIED BUT THIS EARTHQUAKE TO HAPPENED IS SO SCARY . SO DESASTROUS AS IF THE END OF THE WORLD I DON'T WANT TO SCARE EVERY ONE BUT ITS TRUE. THE ONLY SOLUTION IS ***PRAYER *** REPENTANCE AND TO PRAY SERIOUSLY TO THE *******HOLY GOD OUR LORD TO THE HOLY FATHER ALMIGHTY IN HEAVEN TO THE HOLY JESUS CHRIST OUR SAVIOR TO THE HOLY SPIRIT ******* ..PLEASE PRAY.
@@zilasioral4 Why you gottta bring that cult garbage into a science conversation?
Well, that assumes it hits before the Pacific Northwest burns down first.
Just as in California it could be God's way of getting people out of the area before the tragedy happens. Just saying 😁❤️🤞
I'm a Californian and wtf is this comment bro. 🙁
@@random_foo9712 k
@@random_foo9712 Well, A, I'm not your bro, not your sister either. And B. are you sure you live in the same California that is suffering massive drought and fires?
@@bunnyniyori6324 A, It's just a joke and B yes I do. We will never burn down. The earthquake *MIGHT* never happen.
I am moving to Toronto only because of this threat this year. I have an intense fear of this quake. I can't sleep at night, sometimes I sleep with my desk over my bed. Lol. Thanks for this.. X.x
I was born & raised, and still live here in Washington state for nearly 60 years. I find it interesting how so many people who live in our state will listen to warnings, and actually see signs with their own eyes, and yet... they still just go on about their merry little lives without a second thought. Those are the people who really are not prepared in some way in case of a disaster. And if they survive, they'll be some of the first ones running and screaming for help while standing in long lines to get it. Be prepared. Those people are the ones who will kill you out of desperation.
I'm in WA as well...something is coming..I FEEL it! My family think I'm nuts, so they can deal on their own. Sadly, people will go nuts, when we should come together. Oh well. 😔🤦
Very true. Wise words.
I have supplies for a year of living without public services... PROBABLY long enough for most "recovery" to be done. Because of that, I can live my merry little life and not worry about it too much.
Been in NW Washington nearing 40 years myself, and I've heard this my whole life too, my family has our plan, go east,lol
How do you prepare for magnitude 9.0 earthquake? Everything will be destroyed, if something will stand after that it will be pure luck.
Suddenly I have an urge for chocolate chip cookies ! 🍪🍪🥰🍪🍪🍪
Oh crumbs !!!! ;c)
You are definitely high enough then.
Cookies always save the day 🍪🍪🥰🥰
Now I want some too! 😂
If that's the case, do we need to eat chocolate chip cookies while it's warm when it's moist? :D
I’m from Tacoma Washington and I moved to Arizona and I’m glad I did.. I pray for my friends and family back home💚
Yes, that is interesting! Have you been to to the meteor crater there? It looks so….BIG! 😗
@@paulbergman8228 🤯 No I have not.. I’ve never heard of it🤷🏽♀️ Where is this WA or AZ?
@@properlike11 Arizona; it is part of the National Park system. It is called Meteor Crater. You can’t even pick up a rock for a home souvenir!
@@paulbergman8228 Wow! Thanks. Well.. Now I definitely have to go check that out 😂❤️🔥❤️🔥
@@properlike11 you look like you from the eastside or hilltop loll
It was earthquake in Turkey and Syria yesterday Feb 6, 2023
It's a 100% certainty. Could happen one minute from now or 100,000 years from now.
Animals know! They always know when a major quake is coming. Sometimes minutes or hours before. Sometimes it’s days. But you can see it in their way they act. Laying near you. Suddenly in a room where they don’t usually lay in. Looking around. At the ground. They know!
They do. Insects, birds too, humans as well. Some people get dizzy or have headaches before, sometimes days in advance. Observe nature, stay safe.
This is what happened to turkey before the quake dogs knew it
It doesn’t matter where we try to go on this earth. We can’t escape the dangers of natural death cus it comes in all shapes, forms and circumstances 💡stay safe💯
Nothing ever happens in Canada…
That stupid asf too think because I been to Canada before and avalanches, wildfires, landslides and winter storms kills thousands of people each year. If your under educated just say that. But don’t try to throw salt at the rest of the world about something so childish.
That's what I said, not safe anywhere really.
@@joshuanethersole3499 anyone being childish is you…..*reported*
I agree with that.
Ty for sharing 💜⚘🍦⚘💚 love it
It happens now in Turkey and Syria 🙏🙏🙏😭
I’ve lived thru 7.2’s however living on the San Andreas fault scares the crap out of me especially having a special needs child 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🌈 all we can do is be prepared and pray!
I understand your huge concern about your dear children. My sister age 57 had special needs all her life. She passed away the end of March fro cancer. I live her with ALL my heart. I miss her terribly. It comforts me she is in heaven and has a whole body, running, holding babies & puppies. 🥰💗
Then move
@@kimberlyarroyo6689 Hi. I have a special needs brother so I understand. I think about the day he will be in heaven. He has had a very hard life. My dad's 80 and he still takes care of my brother. I help them with a lot of chores. God bless you and your family. Have a good day.
@@honeybee_sunflower_
It sure took a tole on our mother. She had Alzheimer's for about 12 years, and passed 4 years ago. As difficult as our lives are here dealing with pain and suffering, our reward going to heaven for eternity is going to make it so devine. I will meet you sister Donna, and your family someday. I believe will be very soon. God Bless you also😁💗
@@tonyochoa7097 doesn’t matter where we live. Moving won’t help. We are in end times. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 May God bless you!
At the end of the day, we are just tiny specks roaming in this infinity we call the universe
Yes we are! And, helloooo! ⭐
Quite a miracle, isn’t it?
Kinda true sadly so
Does that still justify a supreme being at all?
@@MemoirsofaBasketcaseit’s an inherently negative belief to hold that there is no creator of the universe because what follows is a meaningless and a futile life. I choose the belief that leads to meaning. Because otherwise I would rather be dead if I found out definitively that the contrary were true. There can be no meaning in a happenstance universe and thus nothing would matter in this scenario. There’s is no such thing as actual love or right or wrong; A mass murder wasn’t wrong, it was just natural selection in an arbitrary universe.
So I think that though neither position can be proved definitively, it’s a much more positive belief to hold that there is a creator. Plus, scientific theories are based off observation - but we have never observed something coming from nothing. So it is extremely rational to believe in intelligent creation as a base worldview. And It’s belief worth spreading because the opposite, nihilism, leads to depression an anxiety. That’s where I was in high school.
They've been saying this for decades. Just live life, stop living in fear. We all lose things, we all die. Don't spend your life worrying about dying - that isn't living.
Getting this recommended and watching this after Turkey got hit by a 7.9 earthquake feels different. RIP to those people...
Imagine living life worrying about when the next major natural disaster will be. What a terrible way to live.
That's an annual event in Florida.
Lookup the patent for a earth quake machine. Nikole Tesla made a machine that can make earth quakes.
We generally don't think about it much. Just stay aware of surroundings.
@@sldavison1655 Exactly.
I rarely even think about this lol.
I’m Californian in case that wasn’t implied.
now I want chocolate chip cookies warm out of the oven !! nice job Nova
Same!
And a glass of milk! 😋
I got to stand directly over the San Andreas Fault, straddling the line where a touristy museum was set up. I left CA, finally, in 2020, was born and raised there, and definitely don't miss the stress of worrying about it anymore. Whew!
Any one after turkey Syria earthquake
The cost of the tsunami hitting the west coast is going to probably be the single most costly disaster in US history by at least an order of magnitude. Not to mention the lives lost or destroyed. It'll probably end up being the cost of the rebuilding effort of every hurricane for the last 50 or so years combined.
It'll be under water, nothing to rebuild.
My advice is to roll the 🎲. You could move farther inland. But you will probably be ok staying there. Unless you get really unlucky.
@@joemartin9904 major earthquake would set off Yellowstone too. Game over!
@@tommysimmons3258 yeah maybe. I live in lake Tahoe. We have had several earthquakes in the last year. A couple were recent. The last one I could hear just before it hit.
@@tommysimmons3258 the ones here were about 5 seconds with moderate shaking. Can you imagine the forces that can shake a mountain range? Wow it's awesome
Well we had a big one today, but not on the San Andreas fault but definitely hit the northern CA valley… it felt like the floor was rolling!
Felt that too here
sorry, my fat ass farted.....my bad.
It was down graded to a 5 point something, very weak.
I've been in a 7.1 that struck 20 miles from my place. Nearly threw me out of bed, opened cabinetry and threw the contents on the floor, and snapped light fittings off the ceiling in my upstairs bedrooms.
It was near the Tahoe area
The Satsop earthquake in 1999 knocked all the cellphone towers out of alignment which took several days to repair. If you don't have access to landlines, communication is going to be very difficult after a large quake. And, your local lines may go down, so you'll only have long distance. It's a good idea to have an out of state contact who can relay messages. Is any of this still being taught? I no longer live in an earthquake prone area.
Absolutely Frightening. I live in the SF Bay Area and this is terrifying.
NO mention of the guy that actually figured out the reasons for land subsidence and who found the evidence of the layers. They make it seem like the guy in this video figured it out.
You….you mean DUTCHISENSE?? He’s the BEST🥰❤️😍🆗✅👍🏻, anyone else, not so much
Brian Atwater.
No one in this video was the person that figured out this objection zone of the Cascadia fault
Evidence for a Micro Nova is all over Geological water and ice catastrophic geology of soil and volcanic activities...the Suns actives are revealing it's future for Earth.
@@sidewinder814u that's not how it's trapped. It's trapped in the Magnetics of the earth in Lava flows . It shows the different kinds of pole reversals and on the moon too. It's called Black glass ...
I’ve lived in LA all my life and earthquakes scare me every time. 🤯😵😵💫😭
🙏🏾
If you're scared you seem to be handling very well, considering you could simply move some place else.
Really? I grew up in California too and unless it's over 7.0, I barely notice them.
I'm so sorry for those people that die doing the earthquake when it was going on 😔😔. Hope you're not living around there??
I believe there's no idea about this major earthquake. If we've known it I believe everyone will be save. But because there's no clue of it just as y'all knoweth not the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ 🙏
I live in Coos Bay; Oregon and I saw an animation on what a Tsunami would do if one hit the Oregon coast. It would cut us off from HWY 101 making it difficult to get in or out until the water recedes. Luckily there's a lot of elevated places where people could go to wait it out.
Hopefully not in winter.
I remember North Bend the same way. Some of the higher ground was close to where people lived.
Have your escape route planned. You'll only have about 15-20 minutes before the first surge arrives.
I can't wait for this
Damn the animations in this were really good. Made it simple to understand
"Big one" fatigue has set in. I just stay at 30 meters above sea level and call it good
I lived in Seattle for 15 years and only experienced two earthquakes back in the late 90's.
That's the issue. The plates have built crazy pressure 2 inches per year and don't release it
The sea didn't rise in Turkey. They whole shoreline sank flooding their towns.
I know it will be devastating but I would love to be alive to witness this force of nature-from a distance. I wish there weren’t so many lives at stake.
I just feel bad for the people at the beach because they won’t make it high enough fast enough
I was in the Kobe Japan earthquake in 1995. The hillsides looked like they literally liquefied, like a sine wave going through them. It was the weirdest thing I have ever seen, all the while bear hugging a telephone pole to say on my feet.
@@FlashCadallic were you long getting out of all that horror?
@@blal07 Luckily I lived in a suburb of Kobe and had no serious damage besides broken windows. The roads were damaged and the trains were out for a while. In the city itself many houses were crushed like pancakes. Over 6000 people died. Many were crushed as they slept as it happened in the morning.
So you want to see a huge earthquake that doesn't actually affect anyone?
Thank you for including Indigenous voices in a this piece
Those are frauds!! White men claiming to be native americans
@@onexonesie hey, pays better than working!!
Its happening today. Philippines was hit by magnitude 7.3 last year & now, Turkey was hit w/ a magnitude of 7.8. 😥
We been waiting 300 years for the big one
Comes out a week before 6.0 in gardnerville
“Hehe we’re in danger”
Carson City here. Ditto.
I was in the Christchurch new Zealand earthquakes 2011. Was astoundingly huge, the power!! I'm praying you guys are safe. God bless.
I'm so sorry for those people that die doing the earthquake when it was going on 😔😔. Hope you're not living around there??
This video’s gonna rack up so many more views when it actually happens
Turkey and Syria just had their share of big one. Let’s all be prepared.
The courage it takes to knowingly live in such a seismically active area is astounding. I won't even pitch a backpacking tent near a creek for fear of flooding, much less build my house there. We have a small community nearby that was actually built in a floodplain next to a creek that overflows its banks at least twice a year. If I were them I'd just rebuild my next house as a boat.
Oh am so sorry 😔
Can’t live in fear
@@Scopes1255 ok, you got to get out from there now..ok
@@Scopes1255 how are you doing??
@@Scopes1255 You also can't live in idiocy. Don't expect me to donate.
As a kid I actually thought if I was in an earthquake the earth would crack open so much I could actually fall thru the earth and get spat out into space. Idk I was a kid!
I had the fear that pluto could fall on earth and destroy the planet (I thought it was a big as a tennis ball btw). It's normal, terrifying, but normal still.
@@shinji5217 I have a fear that gravity with shut off randomly and we fly up into space😳
@@hannahmaria7076 this lol, when I had the fear I've said I wasn't scared I was going to die, I was scared I'd be on space and would die without oxigen.
When I was 5 i thought that if I was caught in a tornado, it would somehow blast me into space after I watched Hercules
Reincarnated souls... your remembered your previous lives.
I Love watching my NOVA !!!!!!thank you.😍😘😊
The earthquake in turkey just happened and it’s 2023 in February
What Tony Johnson said is truly important and needs to be known by everyone
Here a thought. What if Indians went to work and built the tower themselves. Oh right . Sit in a bar and complain about the government not giving them more money. 🤦♂️
"the Pacific Northwest is due for another earthquake"
*Me, a Californian:* ᖇᗴᗩᒪᒪY , 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕕𝕠𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝔸𝕐 ???
Too many brainwashed sheep fell for the covid BS and now they KNOW they have us! Their latest test, which we AGAIN failed miserably, was surfside, that was a planned implosion just like the towers! We collectively are nothing but brainwashed fools who don't think for ourselves. I'm madder than hell right now. We COULD have prevented this PLANDEMIC if it weren't for the SHEEP and KARENS. Anyone who took the jab will now have a compromised immune system which will be difficult to survive the upcoming flu season, and it won't be from covid or the fake Delta variant. To those who took this, They are also chipped! This has never been about covid, it's been about genocide and getting us all chipped. Catherine Austin Fitts Planet Lockdown,,, type it in just like that. Riveting truth!
Whatever you’re smoking, you should stop.
@@bluelagoon1875 Go away, you only listen to conspiracy theorists and have no real working knowledge or scientific understanding of anything.
@@misttylyn HAHAHAHA
@@bluelagoon1875 shut up its real where u get the proof google Google lies dumba**
I can still travel through Oregon and see how the valleys have been divided and match up perfectly with the other sides as does the crust between America and all between us They Atlantic Ocean and The European countries. Take a look at the west coast of America.
They’ve been saying this my entire life and we’ve never had one big enough to knock something off the shelf…..
I've seen several of these "tsunami towers" featured in various videos. And, I can't help but see them as anything but a placebo, of sorts. The initial destruction tsunami's cause isn't the result of water rising vertically. The water will be traveling horizontally, with enough force to shear almost any such framework off at the ground. And that's just the water. Much like a tornado, the most destructive component would be other objects picked up and carried along with the wind, water, etc. To supplement such a structure, and give it even a fighting chance of surviving the impact, a wedge-like mound could be formed on the sea-facing side. Not pyramid-like, in shape. But more akin to a splitting wedge (used for splitting firewood).
The wave comes in…then it goes back out carrying everything it knocked loose coming in! At the sight of La Chole near Zhuatenajo, the tsunami went in about 4-5 kilometers, washed over earthen pyramids 20-30 feet tall, and buried everything at ground level in about 3-5 feet of sand. There is a museum there now that has many artifacts that have been found from excavations, in the ground around the area after rainstorms remove sand, and construction of local houses, etc. I have visited the area twice and it is quite interesting to see the excavations, visit local residents, and learn of the culture that existed. There are about 10 sports fields located by satellite photos, and one has been excavated, as well as one of the earthen pyramids surface area and crest platform of about 1+ acres. We ate lunch prepared by one of the village couples and they had about 30+ artifacts just sitting on the ground in their backyard consisting of bowls, plates, implements and even a grain or corn grinding platform like a small corn hole game platform, carved out of stone about 1/5 the size. There are many more artifacts that were sent to the cultural museum in Mexico City. What will happen on the Pacific coast will be very similar from an earthquake of 9+. The Jan 1, 1700 tsunami was recorded in documents in Japan that registered the tsunami arriving on Jan 2nd since it had crossed the international dateline the same day. 😳
Not to mention, the actual ground the "tsunami towers" are anchored to, will be moved aside several dozen 'er so feet/yards...quite VIOLENTLY!
@@fobbitoperator3620 I've worked as a foundation and geotechnical engineer in previous stages of my career, so I can give you a little information here. Many steel frame structures with deep foundations actually faired quite well in the 2011 Japan tsunami. The problem was there weren't many of them. Most residential structures were built on shallow foundations with wood framing, and these were either destroyed or broke away from their foundations and floated away and were completely destroyed. The schematic shown in the video of the towers shows them with deep foundations, which would be drilled concrete piers or driven steel piers anchored in bedrock, or 50 to 100 feet into solid soil. This would assure that the structures would not move even during a violent tsunami.
@@DirtFlyer Aaaahhhhh yes, a fellow adult speaking with wisdom, common sense, & science. Rare these days here on the interwebs nets.
I myself was a Local 1 Ironworker (not an engineer) in Chicago for 13 years. I assembled & installed deep subterranean caissons to reinforce foundations for high rises, highway overpasses, & a myriad of other structures which required heavy duty lateral support.
For sustained lateral pressure, like wind, floods hyperactive 6 year olds on BIG wheels etc, I would presume these types of structures would have the depth & tinsel strength to stand up to high winds, raging flood waters & maybe even low registering Earthquakes.
But a 300-400 mph +100' tall tsunami?? Eehhh, I'm going to go out in a limb here & say perhaps if fabricated with the utmost of high quality alloys & erected properly, the physical structures "could" stand up to that sort of hydro-blast. (nevermind all the aggregate/debris the tsunami brings with it)
But the people dwelling within the structures would end up bursting into piles of hamburger meat, due to the raw power of the impact, & the ambient explosive pressure of a MMAAASSIVE wave of incalculable volume & velocity slamming into the structure at those speeds.
Your comment made perfect sense from an structural engineering standpoint. But the soft liquid filled bodies of the people within the structures would practically explode with all that intense pressure lambasting them all at once.
Kansas, Nebraska & even Idaho would be safe from tsunamis. Relocation might be a sound plan. CHEERS!!!
@@fobbitoperator3620 That's some good hard work you've done! I've done inspection work on a few sites where some of these massive structures were installed. The equipment and capabilities is always mind blowing to me when you get to see the 10+ foot diameter drilled piers going in.
The only structures that withstood the tsunami in Japan were BOTH steel or concrete structures and with deep foundations. And if you're below water level in one of those buildings you are still toast. But new skyscrapers are built to withstand 8+ magnitude earthquakes, although they employ even more measure such as active damping within the buildings and such. A tsunami tower would not require that level of engineering and is specifically designed to endure the forces of the tsunami waves and debris crashing into it. I believe you also would not have walls on the towers, just the bare steel framework perhaps with concrete to protect from debris, so the lateral forces would be decreased.
Your thoughts on the speed of a tsunami aren't quite accurate. In the open ocean tsunamis do travel at the speed of jet airplanes. Once they get into shallow water they slow down significantly to the speed of a severe flash flood. There are many videos of the tsunami in Japan where you can observe this up close and personal.
As far as the height...100 feet is extremely rare for a tsunami. In the instances where it did occur in Japan, it was due to a combination of the entire land mass dropping down many feet, and the wave height being amplified as it came into narrowing ports and harbors with steep, high shore slopes. These types of harbors are not very common on the OR or WA coast, although they definitely could experience the drop in elevation of the landmass to some degree. I would guess that in Japan's tsunami the average wave height was somewhere around 40 feet high.
In the end, I would say that a tower is a "good enough for now" approach. The better long term approach would be moving entire cities and towns on the coast to higher ground, and building bigger highway evacuation routes with more resilient bridges.
I find that Dutch Sinse channel very helpful in getting a heads-up (up to a few days) for an area getting hit and with an approximate magnitude. Yesterday he mentioned this very area getting some significant action soon.
He's been saying that for months.
I love Dutch, been following for years....
@@linda6987 dutch can’t predict crap lmao
I like his channel as well.
@@roguebiscuit5282 he is doing very well
Wait a second. I thought largest quakes on record for United States was in New Madrid MO?
Coming here after the 5.1M on 10/25. Scary stuff.
Watching this in the middle of the night in the "ring of fire" north of California. Never bothered me because only twice have I ever experienced tremors in my 6 decades here. I just felt several tremors and verified by the things I have hanging that are slightly swinging. Interesting but not scary as I'm hours from the coast and well above the river level. I'd only worry about a tree coming down on my home. If "the big one" ever hits, I'll deal with it. The older you get, the less you care about dying.
These towers can be absolutely life saving to costal communities that rely heavily on bridge access to the mainland! I’m kind surprised this is the first I’m learning about them!
I live in the Midwest and we keep saying we’d rather deal with snow than earthquakes and hurricanes.
That thing they have to go up high from the water, that might not even help. I remember in 2011 when the Japan quake hit there were waves up to 90 feet tall in some areas.
I've been building I'm Portland all my working life. Companies are spending 100"s of millions on siesmic upgrades to their buildings. You wouldn't believe how much reinforced steel goes into new commercial projects, but older construction like Bonneville Dam didn't have seismic codes when built. Coastal towns will be toast. It's so flat most of the area. No plans.
The old buildings which are all over Portland are the issues, as well as so many older houses, burnside bridge ect
A Cascadia Event is a plate crash not a fault shift and Japan has History in writing, Jan. 26th. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake occurred along the Cascadia subduction zone on January 26, 1700 with an estimated moment magnitude of 8.7-9.2. The megathrust earthquake involved the Juan de Fuca Plate from mid-Vancouver Island, south along the Pacific Northwest coast as far as northern California.
The people from that coastal town recognizing their houses as an impact zone for tsunamis: 👁👄👁
the 2018 earthquake in Alaska was pretty bad, im scared to experience something like that again it was 7.1
Me too! My heart drops every time we have an earthquake that I can „hear“ rolling in.
Ironically i think they just had an 8.1 couple of days ago. The plates are shifting, magma's rising, volcano's erupting...just earth making some adjustments I guess ) stay safe everyone in this crazy, beautiful world we are lucky enough to call home
Just had an earthquake here in Melbourne, Australia
Same
The Midwest is overdue for a major earthquake as well. We have a sleeping Titan in the boot heel of Missouri. It's called The New Madrid Fault. Back in 1812, there were three quakes of 8.0, and greater within a short time period. The San Andreas Fault isn't the only one to worry about.
Cannot wait
Let's make sure two things happen:
1- a lot of youtubers and tiktokers are there to get as much footage as possible
2- they stay there and get squashed
Hopefully they upload fast enough!
@@al307antony2 yeah, be a pity to waste all that effort waiting to die 😊
works for me..
Not youtubers tho😏
I only live 3 miles from the Shoalwater Bay Tribe in North Cove (Wash away Beach). Unfortunately, with the expected drop in elevation, western land shift and liquidification from the Big One combined with the fact that the barrier dune has been destroyed over the last century through erosion and human development, I don't see many of us making it to high ground in the 20 minutes expected between quake and wave.
Maybe Biden is able to help, definitely a different administration.
Buy a helicopter.
I knew someone who freaked about the 'big one' and spent thousands getting 'Earthquake Prepared' then shoved it our face that we're all doomed. 25 years later I asked whether the prep was worth it - got blocked >.
Of course; the only thing bigger than the next quake was his ego.
Living in New Zealand we always shake! So used to it! Big volcanos spewing and undersea as well. If it happens it happens, we already had a huge one in the south island that stunned us and before that it flattened the city of Napier.
Yesterday night in Alaska!!!
Can’t someone just build these people a platorm or two? It’s just pure good being generous in a way that provides safety. How much can it really cost
I agree. These towers look very strong. If calculations have been made (which I assume they have) that shows they will be high enough and strong enough with room for all, the government or even a donator should do this for these people. Better to have and not need, than to need and not have.
Lol..that would assure the government shows up and require permits and ecology assessments and geo and thennn......moral of the story, as it is for us Normal Americans..DO NOT rely on GOV. for anything!..if you do that is entirely your problem!
@@michaelarchangelthehammer
I totally AGREE!! Most people now rely on the government for everything.
@@trojan6530 the world has gone mad..and I feel like I am in the twilight zone half the time!
@@michaelarchangelthehammer the problem is these towers would likely cost a lot of money. Would the community be able to afford to build them themselves?
Wow. I knew someone was going to say it. “It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when.” And we got it within the first 10 seconds of the video. Great work. Never heard that expression before…Do better.
4:30 - tsunami tower May I suggest swapping out the stairs for ramps. This would make it easier for vulnerable members of the community.
Yes, the "Big One" is coming any day now. I have been hearing that for as long as I can remember so it must be true. One thing though, if an earthquake does occur it will be a huge disaster, seeing as how ineptly our governments deal with any kind of disaster.
October 23rd. On the 24th, there will be a devastating earthquake. Sorrow and Ruins will be seen. COVID-19, Covid 16 " Start eating the antidote to the Coronavirus. The antidote to Coronavirus is... There is. " Prophecies Help to you. Kind Regards Caesar de Nostradamus 2021.10. 12.
@@nostradamuscaesarde bruh
Yes, watching during Katrina when they "rescued" people off of roofs by helicopter only to deposit them on pavement surrounded by deep water.
That tsunami tower doesn’t look handicap accessible. Also what’s up with the dinging sound?
Mind control
@@miss42310 could you explain further please
I’m 37 years old from Southern California I’ve witnessed one large earthquake that was north ridge earth quake and one smaller one 4th of July of 2020 I think it’s overdue I personally have my emergency earth quake kit on hand ready to go…
I think the big one went to Turkey 🇹🇷 and Syria 🇸🇾 🤔 2023
It's always a tough situation.
'Tomorrow' is both something for which many can hope for... and also a day which others still may dread.
Tomorrow is uncertain and the end is always near.
Wtf you guys are you both ok? Lol